Overview Quotes

• You live your life at the time you live it -- you don't have much of an overview when what's happening to you is still happening.

  John Irving

  Live Your Life, Stills, Happenings

  John Irving (2012). “In One Person: A Novel”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights.

  Jerry Garcia

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Rights, Bills

  Source: medium.com

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• Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

  Sheryl Crow

  Art, Watches, Facts

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• I don't have a directorial overview, which sometimes is very helpful.

  Julia Barr

  Helpful, Sometimes

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• Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

  Stefan Zweig

  Reality, Understanding, Depth

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• If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching.

  Anne Lamott

  Missing, Bigs, Big Picture

  "Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair". Book by Anne Lamott, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2013.

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• The Country Doctor Revisited is a fine achievement. Purporting to be an overview of the practice of medicine in rural areas, it is a splendid portrait of the practice of medicine everywhere. The special conditions that prevail in the countryside as opposed to the cities are examined, and each of these is illustrated by a case history that is as compelling as it is informative. It is presented in a highly readable form that would be accessible to the general public as well as to the deliverers of health care. I recommend it most highly.

  Richard Selzer

  Country, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

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• We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction.

  Tenzin Palmo

  Teacher, Feet, Giving

  Source: studybuddhism.com

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• When I make a movie, I don't break it down and analyze it. I could but it would get in the way of doing a job - on instinct based on all the research we did going in. you want to trust yourself and your director and your acting partners in the circumstances you're shooting. I don't like to have any kind of overview.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Jobs, Acting, Directors

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• [The Theosophical Society] are ideologues in terms of the way they present the material. That's one of the reasons why, when they teach their courses, you only get a smidgen of stuff and you have to keep coming back every week. They won't do an overview. Because they're trying to bypass your conscious critical faculties by leaking the information slowly.

  Paul Laffoley

  Trying, Information, Stuff

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I don't really have a historical overview of my work at all. I'm not an art historian. I don't see that there's this period and that period.

  Howard Hodgkin

  Art, Historical, Periods

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• [About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.

  Rene Descartes

  Science, Men, Intelligent

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• I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin.

  Ron Perlman

  Autumn, Thinking, Careers

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• I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

  Barbara Steele

  Sunday, Black, Objectives

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• It's been written about as "the overview effect." All I can give you is my perspective, but most all of the people who have been in space start to see the world without boundaries. You start to think about how we can keep doing these things we're doing that are destructive of the environment and destructive of the planet. It causes you to start to think things in a quite different way than we had before.

  Edgar Mitchell

  Thinking, Space, Perspective

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• From the standpoint of our spiritual development, it might be important for us to realize that we came from an unknown somewhere; we brought with us an attained state of consciousness; and while we are here, we are expanding that consciousness. From some perspectives, it may seem that we are making giant strides, but from the greater overview, our quantity of spiritual knowledge is smaller than Ptolemy's knowledge of astronomy!

  John Templeton

  Spiritual, Perspective, Important

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• Some coaches spend their time trying to get an overview of all eleven defenders. I prefer to zero in on one guy at a time to get the right clue.

  Sid Gillman

  Football, Zero, Nfl

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• We are not very pleased when we are forced to accept a mathematical truth by virtue of a complicated chain of formal conclusions and computations, which we traverse blindly, link by link, feeling our way by touch. We want first an overview of the aim and of the road; we want to understand the idea of the proof, the deeper context.

  Hermann Weyl

  Truth, Math, Ideas

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

  Margaret Atwood

  Giving, Long, World

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview". Interview With Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Women today have more of an overview of their lives and how marriage is or is not a part of it.

  Helen Reddy

  Marriage, Today

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• In '98, I locked myself in my house, went out of my mind and wrote 25 songs. I rarely bathed during that period of writing; I sent out for food, I didn't really venture out of my house in three or four months. It was a hell of an experience. The album is an overview of birth to now.

  Jerry Cantrell

  Song, Writing, House

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• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Airplane, Light, Climbing

  Rudolf Arnheim (2009). “The Dynamics of Architectural Form”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• There's a story about how the program is organized, there's a story about the context in which the program is expected to operate. And one would hope that there will be something about the program, whether it's block comments at the start of each routine or an overview document that comes separately or just choices of variable names that will somehow convey those stories to you.

  Guy Steele

  Block, Names, Choices

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• Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide.

  James Berardinelli

  Dedication, Blade Runner, Style

  Review of "Blade Runner", www.reelviews.net. 1982.

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• Angus Deaton has written a wonderful book, The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality. . . . Deaton's book is a magisterial overview of health, income, and wealth from the industrial revolution to the present, taking in countries poor and rich. Not just jargon-free but equation-free, the book is written with a beautifully lucid style. . . . [P]owerfully argued and convincing.

  Michael Marmot

  Country, Book, Style

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